Free Rocket Study Guides

Free Curriculum from Lowry Park Zoo

Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo offers free educator’s guides for download; to be used in conjunction with your zoo visit, or to complement any zoological study.

Kindergarten – 2nd Grade
3rd Grade – 5th Grade
6th Grade – 8th Grade
9th Grade – 12th Grade

Wetlands Connections

Free Teacher Resources – Florida Water

I am always excited to find (and share) *free* resources available to home educators!

While searching for more information about our current drought situation here in Florida, I noticed that there is a complete section on the Southwest Florida Water Management District’s website dedicated to free teacher’s resources!

There you will find coloring pages, activity sheets, booklets, study guides, posters, and more!  There are materials available for all ages, and all related to Florida’s water system (water conservation, hydrologic cycle, wetlands, habitat, water testing, etc).

If you are interested in more than just teaching resources, click here to find links to all of their free publications –  including resources for homeowners, such as A Guide to Florida-Friendly Landscaping.

A few Free “e-bies” to Share

Free ebook download:

The folks at Knowledge Quest are offering a free download of  Good King Wenscelas, one of many biographies featured in their book, What Really Happened During the Middle Ages.

Free lapbook:

The current CurrClick free download is The Girl in the Rag Coat project pack/lapbook by In the Hands of a Child.

Free Notebooking Pages:

Also from CurrClick, are some free Thanksgiving Notebooking Pages by Homeschool Notebooking.com. This set includes 15 Thanksgiving-themed notebooking pages and a Thanksgiving card.

Homeschool Freebie of the Day:

…And don’t forget to check out The Homeschool Freebie of the Day site! They are offering some great Thanksgiving-related products this week.

Jan Brett – Free Printables and More!

Sharing another homeschool freebie…

I just love children’s book author and illustrator Jan Brett!

Quite a while ago I blogged about the free “how-to-draw-a-dolphin” drawing video she offered on her website. Now there are many other videos, with more added all the time!

In addition to the videos, Ms. Brett very generously offers an array of other freebies as well (according to her website, “4,147 pages of free activities, coloring pages, and projects” to date!).

And if you wish to know when new pages ares added, simply subscribe to her mailing list! The latest email I received from her lists links to 19 new pages of games and printables.

CurrClick – Offering a FREE Download Every Week

Have you heard of CurrClick yet? Formerly HomeschoolEStore, CurrClick is the place to go to down load your favorite homeschool resources, including lesson plans, unit studies, notebooking pages, and MORE! The greatest benefit to me of ebooks (besides being environmentally friendly)? No need to try to find space on those overcrowded bookshelves!

The thing I like best about CurrClick? Every week they offer one featured product to download absolutely free!

Check in to see what this week’s free product is!

Free Homeschool Resources: Presidential Elections

Election time is quickly approaching. It will be here before you know it! Although I still don’t have any children who are old enough to vote yet, I desire to teach them as much as I can about the process. The work has been done for me. I want to thank the following individuals for offering free resources for teaching about the election:

• Cindy Downes of Oklahoma Homeschool – A Free 12-week Presidents & Elections Unit Study for Primary Grades!
• PBSKids.org -”Zoom Out the Vote!“
• The Teaching Home Newsletter – An Introduction to Government, United States Government, Our Responsibilities in Government, Presidential Election Internet-Based Unit Study – Part 1, Presidential Election Internet-Based Unit Study – Part 2
• CNN – America Votes
• Reach Every Child – Resources for Presidential Studies
• CNN Politics – Election 2008
• Project Vote Smart
• Ben’s Guide to Government for Kids – The Election Process (Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12), Electoral College (Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12)
• MarcGram – The Presidential Race

Free Pages from NotebookingPages.com This Week!

HomeSchoolEStore.com graciously offers a different free product every week for download, but I LOVE it when that free product is something from notebookingpages.com.

This week’s free product is just that! Just in time for President’s Day, you can now get a FREE download (no purchase necessary) of United States of America Notebooking Pages, complete with maps!

If you aren’t already familiar with notebookingpages.com, I can assure you that you won’t be disappointed. These are a favorite homeschool resource in our home, especially the nature study pages!

Also available this week from notebookingpages.com and the HomeSchoolEStore are the Valentine Notebooking Pages.

In addition to offering these absolutely FREE, with no purchase necessary, HomeSchoolEStore is also currently giving away a Bible Study from Grapevine Studies – The New Testament Timeline Booklet, Teacher’s Edition, free with any purchase. Offer is available until March 1st (use coupon code 6c89de at checkout).

Freebie Friday

I recently came across a very nice free resource for educators, DiscoverySchool.com! I have used their site from time to time for their Puzzlemaker, but just yesterday discovered their Quiz Center, which enables you to make and administer your own custom online quizzes!

Here is an example of one I made yesterday for Ant’s geography vocabulary words.